# reporter

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/ · frequency rank #3,976

## Definitions
1. Someone or something that reports.
2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
4. A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
5. A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

## Etymology
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **reports** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reporter-vs-reports)
- **resorted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reporter-vs-resorted)
- **retorted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reporter-vs-retorted)
- **reporters** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reporter-vs-reporters)
- **report** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-reporter)
- **reported** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reported-vs-reporter)
- **recorder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recorder-vs-reporter)
- **reformer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reformer-vs-reporter)
- **repeater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeater-vs-reporter)

## Common misspellings (12)
`erporter`, `reoprter`, `reporetr`, `reporrter`, `reporterr`, `reportre`, `reportter`, `repotrer`, `repporter`, `reproter`, `rpeorter`, `rreporter`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/reporter